Those 27 words called the Second Amendment were carefully crafted to avoid the abuse of hucksters. It’s time we read them again. If we did, we might ask some very appropriate questions, such as, “If the right ‘to keep and bear Arms,’ was about private gun ownership, then why did they use the collective noun, ‘the people’?” Or, “Why is ‘Arms’ capitalized and ‘State’ and ‘Militia’? Was it done to specifically link those three words?”

Hopefully, we might even ask, “Isn’t the Second Amendment really about ‘the security of a free State’?”

Read it for the first time, again, for the sake of our nation, and our children:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”